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Antibody-Drug Conjugates and Cancer Treatment: Making "Smart Bombs" Smarter

Significant advances have been made in recent years to develop therapeutic agents beyond the “blunderbuss” approach of broadly targeting all rapidly dividing cells, to ones that better target tumor cells; specifically to improve the killing of tumor cells while reducing collateral damage to healthy tissues.The first generation of such targeted therapies include the development of monoclonal antibodies such as Herceptin for HER2-positive breast cancer and Rituxan for CD20-positive lymphomas...

July 4, 2013 — Trevor Hallam

Health

Imaging the near invisible with TEM: a master class

Though nanometer-level imaging has come far with transmission electron microscopy, Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman (Nobel Prize 2011, Chemistry) warned his master class audience on Tuesday that today’s images will seem primitive a few years in the future...

July 3, 2013 — Kathleen Raven

The Sciences

Chemistry and physics: one needs the other

“Quantum theory has opened to us the microscopic world of particles, atoms and photons,” explained Nobel Laureate Serge Haroche, who shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics with David Wineland...

July 1, 2013 — Kathleen Raven

The Sciences

Mount Shasta: The Medusa of Siskiyou County

For those of you who may or may not know me, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. My childhood was spent in Siskiyou County, California. Siskiyou County is the “Atlantis” of the west coast...

July 1, 2013 — Joel Taylor

The Sciences

M@h*(pOet)?ica The Number Poems of Richard Kostelanetz

Editor's note (11/7/13): Find the entry point and new posts of Bob Grumman's M@h*(pOet)?ica at http://poeticks.com/ In a preface Richard Kostelanetz wrote to his 1976 collection, NUMBERS: POEMS & STORIES , 1 he spoke of his life-long enjoyment of numbers, ordinary numbers out of the everyday...

June 29, 2013 — Bob Grumman

Health

The Dance and the Dancer: At Taksim Square

Part 1: The Dancer.It's called the Dancer. La Bailarina . Like some crazed Stravinsky diva, the Condor GL 310 gas grenade bobs and weaves when it lands, moving in random patterns, spewing noxious gas into the air...

June 28, 2013 — Cat Bohannon

The Sciences

Cataloguing the Impact of Lindau Meetings

Prestigious achievements like the Nobel Prize create powerful networks. Within these networks, scientists share ideas, researchers collaborate with resources and writers cover stories.

June 26, 2013 — Kathleen Raven

Evolution

Why 2 Birds in the Hand May Be Better Than a "Hobbit" Skull (in a Cave Deposit, at Least)

The light flickers, and then goes out. The humming of the air conditioning stops. The sounds of Jakarta’s hustle-bustle and infamous traffic gridlock slowly seep into the room, softly lit by the glow of my laptop screen...

June 24, 2013 — Hanneke J.M. Meijer

The Sciences

Lindau 2013: Videos with a personality, flow and message

After learning about the Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau through an online science video collection, Edson Filho will now be behind the camera making films himself as a video blogger at this year’s meeting...

June 21, 2013 — Kathleen Raven

Environment

Questions of Environmental Health and Justice Growing with the Petcoke Piles in Detroit

Before you read this blog post, navigate to your favorite search engine, type in “Detroit petroleum coke,” and peruse the results for a moment (don’t forget to come back and keep reading).If you’re new to this issue, you might be able to quickly piece together a story about a “…three-story pile of toxic by-product…” that has helped “…Detroit’s riverfront gain national attention” amidst “growing outrage, and calls for action…” from “worried residents.” You may see that even with “…study results released..., concerns linger” and “…unanswered questions…” remain as to the ecological and human health risks posed by the growing pile of oil refinery waste on the banks of the Detroit River...

June 21, 2013 — Allyson Green

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Antibody-Drug Conjugates and Cancer Treatment: Making "Smart Bombs" Smarter

Imaging the near invisible with TEM: a master class

Chemistry and physics: one needs the other

Mount Shasta: The Medusa of Siskiyou County

M@h*(pOet)?ica The Number Poems of Richard Kostelanetz

The Dance and the Dancer: At Taksim Square

Cataloguing the Impact of Lindau Meetings

Why 2 Birds in the Hand May Be Better Than a "Hobbit" Skull (in a Cave Deposit, at Least)

Lindau 2013: Videos with a personality, flow and message

Questions of Environmental Health and Justice Growing with the Petcoke Piles in Detroit

Blog Index

@ScientificAmerican

Anecdotes from the Archive

Anthropology in Practice

Beautiful Minds

Budding Scientist

Cross-Check

Dark Star Diaries

Dog Spies

Extinction Countdown

Eye of the Storm

Frontiers for Young Minds

Guest Blog

Hot Planet

Illusion Chasers

Life, Unbounded

Observations

Roots of Unity

Rosetta Stones

SA Visual

Talking back

The Artful Amoeba

Voices